Dec.9 - Dec.11, 2011 Vienna – Austria Hannes Androsch Former Austrian Federal Minister of Finance former Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria PDG, AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH 1938 Born on 18 April in Vienna 1953 Head of the Floridsdorf section of the Association of Social Democratic Junior High School Students 1956 School leaving certificate (Matura) College of International Trade in Vienna 1959 Degree in Business Administration 1960 Chairman of the Vienna Section of the Austrian Union of Social Democratic Students (VSStÖ) 1962 Chairman of the Austrian Union of Social Democratic Students (VSStÖ) Secretary, then consultant on economic issues for the Social Democratic parliamentary party (until 1963 1967) 1966 Tax Consultant Stands for Parliament 1967 Member of Parliament 1968 Certified auditor and tax consultant Deputy State Commissioner at the Zentralsparkasse (until 1970) PhD in Economics 1970 Austrian Minister of Finance (until 1981) 1972 Member of the National Executive Committee of the SPÖ (until 1983) 1974 Member of the SPÖ Party Presidium and Deputy Party Chairman of the SPÖ (until 1981) www.worldpolicyconference.com Dec.9 - Dec.11, 2011 Vienna – Austria 1976 Vice-Chancellor (until 1981) 1979 Chairman of the OECD at ministerial level 1980 Chairman of the Interim Committee of the International Monetary Fund 1981 January to June - Deputy General Manager of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein; as of July: General Manager (until 1988) 1988 Consultant at the World Bank (until 1989) 1989 Founding of AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH 1994 Industrialist 2003 Chairman of the University Council of the Mining University Leoben Establishment of the "Hannes Androsch Foundation at the Austrian Academy of Sciences", a non- 2004 profit foundation 2008 Dr. h.c. of the Bratislava School of Law, Slovakia 2009 Dr. h.c. of the University of New Orleans, USA 2010 Expo Shanghai 2010 Commissioner General of Austria 2010 Head of RFTE, the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development 2011 Initiator of the education referendum Hannes Androsch lives in Vienna and Altaussee www.worldpolicyconference.com .